Leadership intelligence that moves organisations
RESILIGENT is a leadership intelligence firm. From Lagos, London and Dubai we help organisations see their leaders clearly and make better decisions about people, at every level.
Some of the organisations we have worked with
Introducing RESILIGENT
A leadership advisory firm built on evidence, experience, and impact
Discover how we work with organisations and the tangible outcomes we enable leaders to achieve.
The record that should already exist
The board asks who could run the East Africa business, and somebody goes looking. There is a psychometric from the candidate's hire four years ago, run by a firm nobody uses now, a 360 from a leadership programme, an appraisal rating, and a development plan that was written, filed and never opened again.
None of it was collected for this question, so the answer that goes back to the board gets built on a Thursday evening out of four fragments and what three people can remember. It might be right. Nobody can show why, and nobody will know for two years.
Your finance team can trace any figure back through the ledger to the transaction that created it, and risk can trace a number back to the exposure, the limit and the person who signed it. Leadership was never built that way, which is why the questions keep arriving at short notice and the answers keep being assembled by hand.
We build the record that should already be there
Impact AS Plus™ is the platform we built and own. It holds each leader's assessments and reports in one place, with their own access to them, and it carries what we hold at three levels.
The leader. How they behave and decide under pressure, how they reason, and how others experience them.
The team. How decisions actually get made, and where trust is thin.
The organisation. The culture your leadership is creating, how deep the bench runs, and where capability is uneven.
Evidence gathered for one decision stays available to the next, under the access and retention terms we agree with you, so the second piece of work starts from what the first one found.
See how Impact AS Plus™ worksWhen organisations call us
Why it comes from outside
Even where your own people see it clearly, the same observation lands differently depending on who is understood to have made it, and in a senior appointment or anything politically difficult that difference decides whether the evidence gets used at all. We write the observation and the conclusion in our own words and stand behind them, and when we are wrong we say so and correct the record.
How an engagement runs
Diagnose
We assess the people and the conditions around the decision and build the picture.
Decide
We take your executive team through what we found, in person, and the team decides what to do about it.
Develop
Coaching, leadership development and the companion support the people the decision depends on.
Deploy
Hiring, appraisal and succession decisions start using the evidence.
Demonstrate
A quarterly review, the year-end 360 and a re-measure show what has moved.
Diagnose
We assess the people and the conditions around the decision and build the picture.
Decide
We take your executive team through what we found, in person, and the team decides what to do about it.
Develop
Coaching, leadership development and the companion support the people the decision depends on.
Deploy
Hiring, appraisal and succession decisions start using the evidence.
Demonstrate
A quarterly review, the year-end 360 and a re-measure show what has moved.
We deliver through coaching, leadership development and training, and facilitation, all by credentialled practitioners from the RESILIGENT group.
Examples of our work
Financial services
A medium-sized financial services firm found its strategy was not being taken up below the top team. The senior leaders were focused on competing while the level below them, who had to interpret and implement it, were focused on surviving, and the caution between them meant the room agreed with whatever came down from above while implementation slowed. The client reported that 85% of what was agreed was still being tracked and delivered nine months later.
Energy
In an energy business, leaders had a style that dominated the room without their knowing it. Others worked differently and stopped putting things forward, so ideas stopped moving because of how the interactions landed rather than because of the ideas themselves. Once that was on the table the team could plan around it, and the client reported that most of what was agreed was still moving six months on.
Client Perspective
"RESILIGENT delivered leadership development from frontline teams through to board level. The experience was practical, refreshing, and sufficiently valuable that I would recommend it as a regular organisational investment."
Omar Shekarau
Executive Director, Bank of Industry
Who we are
RESILIGENT was founded in 2010 and has offices in Lagos, London and Dubai. Four ICF Master Certified Coaches work across the RESILIGENT group, and the wider faculty is credentialled at ACC, PCC and MCC level. Most of our practitioners are African and working on the continent, and credentials are verifiable for everyone we put in front of you.
Our founder, Remi Adebonojo, worked at Oliver Wyman early in his career, reaching senior level, and went on to become a chief risk officer accountable for major programmes across the UK, Europe, Asia and Africa. He is one of fewer than seven ICF Master Certified Coaches in West Africa.
About RESILIGENTTell us the decision you are closest to making
We will say what evidence it requires, what that would cost and how long it would take, and nothing is chargeable until you agree the scope.